That 40-story deep pit. What's that about?

The kids and the blood. What's that about?

There seems to be multiple black skies and they need to die and come back to life in a specific time scale to be activated, relating to the blood, the big jar thing and the big hole in hell's kitchen that was labeled black sky in season one and which Nobu demanded. Its exact importance was never spelt out as far as I'm aware.

I am mainly going off Elektra the movie that I don't even remember much of in the assumption it all ties together. I am unsure of her exact lore but I think black sky is a new twist for the show. I've not stumbled on details from comics about it anyway. Special blood and resurrection in that location turns a potential black sky into an activated black sky I assume.

He saved Elektra for reasons not fully explored but he seemed to have just liked her in a father daughter sense. Maybe he thought turning a dark sky good was a potentially winning strategy never explored before.

My expectation is the crossover mini series is about elektra as black sky and we will know more then. They left details intentionally vague.

Evil DA's plan and the ensuing trial

It's just a bunch of stuff that happens. The Punisher and Black Sky plots are completely disconnected, not just from each other but also internally, there's no real rhyme or reason to what happens. And then the Foggy stuff is all from a much, much worse show which has dream sequence logic.

There's also a bunch of weird things like, OK, this is the Punisher's origin story. Gotcha. But he doesn't get his costume until episode 13? And it seems like we're supposed to be all "oh wow now he has guns" when he finds that inexplicable shack of guns,but he already apparently had pretty easy access to weapons. Was that scene originally intended to be much earlier?

I can't believe the actress who played Karen didn't object when given her shooting script each day. I would've keyed the writer's car, wtf.

Punisher in the generals shed was meant to convey he had completed his mission and had no idea what to do next, then the prisoners line about his work never being complete is proven correct by fate.

I think.

It doesn't really work without dialogue. But I think that is where they were going with fate reinforcing what Frank should do next.

Oh and yeah it was super weird how the show suddenly switched from Punisher stuff that was awesome to Black Sky stuff that didn't work right. It was such a jarring moment with no overlap or connection and ultimately Frank head shotting a few hand at the end doesn't connect them or make him important, it forces the connection.

They could have easily had a more organic connection by moving Franks revenge up to ep 9 or 10, have the Hand run over DD and Elektra at modified hospital and hostage scenes then have Karen ask for Frank to help which adds depth to her as she realises Frank is a necessary weapon in the right fight and he can make a huge difference fighting alongside DD and Elektra. Minigun beats ninja sword.